Eliminating common programming errors

Serves as a checklist to eliminate common pitfalls from an application.

Turn on the data check parameter
Suggests a parameter to improve quality of data.
Check your include files
Identifies essential include file (header file).
Clean house and try again
Suggests recovery strategy.
Read your messages
Introduces warning and error messages.
Check return values
Explains purpose of return values.
Beware of numbering conventions
Describes indexing and numbering conventions.
Make local variables temporarily global
Describes investigation of the heap through global variables.
Solve the problem you intended
Recommends interactive debugging and diagnostic routines.
Special considerations for FORTRAN
Describes FORTRAN conventions for indexing, numbering.
Tell us
Tells where to report problems.

Parent topic: Developing CPLEX applications